The Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) is the national industry trade association set up to represent the locally incorporated recording companies in Malaysia. RIM currently represents 170 such companies and businesses, all of which are involved in the production, manufacturing and distribution of local and international sound, music video and karaoke recordings. This accounts for approximately 95% of all legitimate recordings in the music market of Malaysia.

26 March 2018, Kuala Lumpur â Priscilla
Abby Chai, has made her mark in the Asian music market with a breakthrough
achievement at the 8th Hong Kong Asian-Pop Music Festival (HKAMF 2018), held
recently on Friday, 23 March 2018 at the prestigious Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).

The annual music festival is a
cross-regional Asian music extravaganza organised by
the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Hong Kong Group),
with the support of Create Hong Kong. The festival promotes music culture, with
top recording artists from around the region taking part in a singing competition
for the Asian Supernova Award. The eight participating countries and
territories are the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore,
South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The event is produced for television
broadcast in 11 countries and beyond. Also, an Asian music business forum were
held with senior record label representatives, management companies, concert
producers and the media taking part in the forum.

It was
a year of full excitement for RIM Charts as the new digital music charts marked
52 weeks of its publication in the Malaysian music industry. Therefore, we are pleased
to present you some of the statistics and highlights of RIM Charts in
2017.

o The result is based on the
calculation of the Top 3 songs in its category by applying the conversion rate
of 1 premium stream = 6.2 ad-supported streams. The best song is chosen out of
the Top 3.

Â· Best
international song debut

Look What You Made Me Do â Taylor
Swift (Universal Music Group)

o Debuted in 1st position on Week
35

Â· Best
domestic song debut

Wanita Terakhir â Fattah Amin (Kasi
Gegar Entertainment)

o Debuted
in 5th position on Week 1

Â· Best
position held by a domestic song

Wanita Terakhir â Fattah Amin (Kasi
Gegar Entertainment)

o 5th
position on Week 1

Â· Domestic
Song with Most Weeks in Charts

Segalanya â Haqiem Rusli (FMC
Music Sdn Bhd)

o Charted in all 52 weeks of 2017
in the Top 200 every week

The above
statistics are calculated based on Malaysian music listenersâ streaming habits
on major digital music service platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, KKBOX and
Deezer. RIM would like to also recognise BMAT for their dedication and hardwork
in compiling these streaming data from major digital music service platforms
throughout 2017.

SINGAPORE, August 14, 2017 â Organisers of the award winning All That Matters, Asiaâs leading music, sports & entertainment industry conference, have announced the programme and speaker line-up for next monthâs five-day B2B2Fan conference and music festival. The conference will be staged at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia, Singapore from September, 11-13.